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La Familia Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 21, 2024
- address224 Columbia Rd, Dorchester 02121
Is La Familia Kitchen clean?
La Familia Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 21, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Familia Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 21, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Thawing (C) • Package of raw hambureger meat observed being thawed at room temperature. Discontinue and ensure proper thawing methods are in place.Thawing (C) • Package of raw hambureger meat observed being thawed at room temperature. Discontinue and ensure proper thawing methods are in place.
- ⚠️Cooling (P) • Cooked meats and rice observed being left out at room temperature 110F. Discontinue and ensure proper cooling methods are in place.criticalCooling (P) • Cooked meats and rice observed being left out at room temperature 110F. Discontinue and ensure proper cooling methods are in place.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Hood and Ventilation tags with a past expiration date from May 2024. Address and provide up to date tags for the re-inspection.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Hood and Ventilation tags with a past expiration date from May 2024. Address and provide up to date tags for the re-inspection.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (C) • Evidence of fruit fly activity noted in the basement storage area. Address.Controlling Pests (C) • Evidence of fruit fly activity noted in the basement storage area. Address.
When was La Familia Kitchen last inspected?
La Familia Kitchen has 14 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 2, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 26, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 16, 2023 | Fail | |
| February 27, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 11, 2022 | Pass |
La Familia Kitchen vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 21, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.